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writing from the port side
These things happen. John Galsworthy became involved with a girl whom his family which to distance their son from at all costs. Since his father, who was to be the senior member of the Forsyte family in Galsworthy’s The Forsyte … Continue reading
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Tagged Carl von Clausewitz, Ford Madox Ford, henry scott tuke, James McNeill Whistler, Jeremy Paxman, John Galsworthy, John William Waterhouse, Joseph Conrad, joseph crawhall, kirsten cale, nick hubble, Sam Huntington, Sigmund Freud, steven metz, Walter Benjamin
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kicking the can down the road: again
There is no doubt that poverty is degrading, and through force, legislation, moral suasion,manipulation, blackmail, soft euthanasia, and “gaming” democracy and elementary social responsibility we have gloriously succeeded in creating the scenario for economic collapse and social and political insurrection. … Continue reading
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Tagged Amy Goodman, Bobby Seale, Camp Forest tent city, cornel west, Emile Durkheim, erskine nichol painter, erskine nicol painter, Ford Madox Ford, Frans Hals, frederick walker paintings, george elgar hicks, harry belafonte, Jeremy Paxman, John Galsworthy, Joseph Conrad, Luke Fildes, Martin Luther King, Rabbi Joshua Abraham Heschel, sir samuel luke fildes, Stephen Colbert, tavis smiley, ted sanderson, the Heritage Foundation, tim geithner, war on poverty
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SCHOOLBOY IN VICARIOUS DISGRACE
”His brief stint at the Blacking Factory haunted him all of his life — he spoke of it only to his wife and to his closest friend, John Forster — but the dark secret became a source both of creative … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Solomon, Charles Dickens, Charles Dickens Childhood, Charles Dickens John Forster, Dickens Bob Fagin, Dickens David Copperfield, Dickens Great Expectations, Dickens James Lamert, Dickens Marshalea Prison, Dickens Pickwick papers, Elizabeth Dickens, Fanny Dickens, G.F. Watts, George Edgar Hicks, George Frederick Watts, James Lamert, Jeremy Paxman, John Dickens, John Forster, lawrence Alma-Tadema, Luke Fildes, Pierre Janet, Sigmund Freud, Susan L. Reviere, Warren's Blacking Factory, William Holman Hunt, William Powell Frith
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EXQUISITE SECRET SUFFERING
The youth of Charles Dickens was usually spent alone, and he was constantly unhappy. The financial failings of his father, who wound up in debtor’s prison forced Charles to work, at the age of twelve, in a shoe blacking factory. … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Graham Dixon, Brian Sewell, Charles Dickens, Charles Dickens Childhood, Dickens Old Curiosity Shop, Dickens Pickwick papers, Jeremy Paxman, John Dickens, Victorian Art, William Powell Frith
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TILL DEBT DO US PART
Abandoned children and orphans are everywhere in the work of Charles Dickens, a reflection of the the child abuse and exploitation he saw in the pre-Victorian and Victorian England his work. His own, and the general sense abandonment and bertrayal … Continue reading
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Tagged Casual Ward, Charles Dickens, Charles Dickens Childhood, Daily Mail, Dickens David Copperfield, G.J. Saville Caricatures, George Cruikshank, Jeremy Paxman, John Dickens, Marshalsea Prison, Warren's Blacking Factory, William Dorrit
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